Philips: Semiconductors Division - Project Renaissance Revitalizes Extranet Portal Architecture, Delivering Significant Business Value

Overview

The semiconductors division of Royal Philips Electronics is headquartered in Eindhoven. Philips wanted to lower total cost of ownership and enhance performance through migration to common portal architecture via upgrade of all application software. They also needed to establish development best practices and architectural frameworks for future IT initiatives. They implemented common portal application architecture powered by Sun ONE Application Server, Sun ONE Directory Server, Sun ONE Web Server, and J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition). Philips saw approximately 45% reduction in code through the reuse of architectural frameworks and design patterns that is expected to lead to as much as a projected 30% reduction in development cycles.